[Hiring] Staff Product Manager @Confluent

Role Description

As a Staff Product Manager in the Cloud Kafka team at Confluent, you’ll contribute to the mission of building the world’s best event streaming platform.

• Lead the vision, strategy, and execution for our Kafka Operator experience.
• Simplify the deployment, management, and scaling of Confluent Cloud Kafka environments for enterprise customers.
• Define and own the product strategy and vision for the Cloud Kafka Operator.
• Conduct market research and competitive analysis.
• Translate strategic objectives into comprehensive product and user experience requirements.
• Collaborate with Engineering, UX/UI Design, Documentation, Support, and Field teams throughout the product lifecycle.
• Work with Product marketing to define and execute go-to-market strategies.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of experience as a software product manager, ideally for a developer product.
• Empathy for our enterprise customers, and a passion for solving their problems with the software.
• Ability to craft a product strategy and roadmap in concert with customers, engineering, design, and go-to-market teams.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to distill technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Strong technical competency, especially with distributed data systems, public and private clouds, and stream processing.
• Experience with data sharing technologies is a plus.
• Experience engaging with an open-source community is a plus.
• Bachelor's, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical field.

Benefits

• Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline.
• We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives.
• We make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.